Aristotle Quotes

He was the first to create a wide-ranging
system of thought
that included morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and
metaphysics.

Here are some profound quotes from his broad and diverse
works.

The Quotes

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.

All men by nature desire to know.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do
not act
rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those
because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is
sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his
enemies.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry
with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and
for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within
everybody's power and is not easy.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the
greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when
your increased means permit.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Man is by nature a political animal.

The basis of a democratic society is liberty.

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness
that we deserve them.

Humor
is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which
will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear
serious examination is false wit.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing
temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most
terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.